What is your most hated chore?

I like to impress my visitors with a quick squirt of furniture polish on one small table only, Chewbacca. It’s the smell what does it.

I’ll be digging that WD40 out as well now next time (if ever again) we have visitors.

I'm quite fond of wiping over anything stainless steel with a quick squirt of WD40; the results are spectacular for absolutely no effort at all and visitors to the kitchen and bathroom think I've been busy polishing all day. As if.

Try using the vinegar in water then drying them with scrunched up newspaper instead of using a chamois, Lilypops.

I hate cleaning windows, I have tried every product, including vinegar but I just can’t stop getting smeary marks on the window no matter how hard I try to get them shiny and smear free,

When I put my oven on, people often think I'm doing a lamb roast.
I haven't the heart to tell them the last one I did was in 1998.

I hate cleaning the oven so I don't bother.

We're still alive.

Ooh, Maggiemaybe thanks for that, will definitely try some!

I hate all of it ... and my hatred has grown larger over the years.
I am currently still shielding but as soon as it’s safe, I will have a cleaner back.

I don’t iron (creases drop out) or clean the oven (neither does anyone else, and it never looks particularly in need of it ). DH does all the cooking, gardening and vaccing (I’m very lucky).

I’m not at all houseproud, and I don’t mind the laundry, or jobs like cleaning the bathroom, mopping the floors, anything where you can see a quick result really. What gets me is the general tidying and sorting, which I should do regularly but always put off till it’s a chore. Putting away the shopping comes into this category. I’m a bit of a lazy so and so really.

Curlywhirly, you need HG grout cleaner - it works like magic!

Definitely cleaning the bathroom. I hate it, so time consuming. Never clean the oven myself anymore. It's so worth the 50 quid to have it done professionally. I don't think I was put on this earth for cleaning anything! Would rather read a good book

hollysteers
Your post reminded me of when I took my mum to look at sheltered flats. She was shown around one and was surprised to see a kitchen. Why have you a kitchen? she asked. "For cooking ofcourse".
The look on my mum's face was a picture. After a lifetime of cooking and housework, I think she thought sheltered housing was going to be a hotel.

Changing the beds - I'd rather iron for hours than change a bed! Also, scrubbing the grout between the kitchen floor tiles, I do it with a toothbrush and Cif and it takes 2 blummin hours!

I will confess to having a cleaner, as soon as it was allowed my lovely lady was back, so the showers are generally clean, but since Covid I have been ironing!!!

Snap PinkCakes oven cleaning and ironing although now I no longer have to iron mine and DH work shirts 10 at least a week I hardly do any ironing.

Mine is coming next week, lemon, he does the extractor too! Love him! Xx

Cleaning the oven.....so I don’t, and haven’t done for the last six years.An oven cleaning company send someone out to do it .....worth every penny.They do the grillpan and all the shelves too, leave it looking like a showroom new oven.

I hate cleaning the oven, and ironing.

Me too kate!!

All forms of housework. I must come from the aristocracy ??

Shopping, I’ve done click and collect for 2 years, now delivery, putting it away is tedious. I don’t iron, my husband does it, 90% is his and certainly not bedding, body heat gets out creases!
Don’t mind hoovering, bathrooms cleaned scrupulously, I cook majority of nights from scratch.

Cleaning the cooker,I keep asking OH to take the pan supports outside and jet wash them ..he says it wont work.
I like washing dishes by hand ,I have a dishwasher but dont use it ever so its been consigned to the garage and a lovely new winefridge installed in its place .There usually just 2 of us here now so a few pots and dishes isn't a lot to clear away.Today I cooked most of the afternoon,two soups,moussaka ,a couple of fruit loaves 2 dozen scones and 3 dozen pancakes.I clear up as I go and just have the worktops to wipe down when its done ...oh and I dont use gadgets either ,just a decent set of knives and a hand whisk ...gives me a sense of acheivement..lol

All chores! I must be the most undomesticated woman in the country, although I used to enjoy cooking.
I once mentioned to my mother that living in an hotel would suit me down to the ground and she thought that was a horrible idea,

Ealdemodor why go to John Lewis?

Have you had a look at AO? We've recently bought a new oven, washer/dryer and a dishwasher from them (not all at once, but over the past 5 months) and they are very good, price match, fast delivery, and will take old appliances away for a reasonable fee.

Putting the shopping away! Don’t mind doing it, but hate stashing it away, I try to do it when I know DH is around to put it in the cupboards.